Country Life

Published by Time Inc. (UK) Ltd Country Life, the quintessential English magazine, is undoubtedly one of the biggest and instantly recognisable brands in the UK today. It has a unique core mix of contemporary country-related editorial and top end property advertising. Editorially, the magazine comments in-depth on a wide variety of subjects, such as architecture, the arts, gardens and gardening, travel, the countryside, field-sports and wildlife. With renowned columnists and superb photography Country Life delivers the very best of British life every week.

Miss Madeline Grant • Madeline is The Daily Telegraph’s parliamentary sketch-writer. She is engaged to the Revd Fergus Butler-Gallie, whom she will marry at The Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick, in July. Madeline is the daughter of John and Sally Grant of Newbold Pacey, Warwickshire

Thou shalt daydream

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Town & Country

Town & Country Notebook

Letters to the Editor

Take a pinch of salt

Athena • Cultural Crusader

My favourite painting Aimie Atkinson

The legacy • Beth Chatto and the dry garden

Totally tropical taste • A warm reception awaits visitors to Tresco Abbey Garden, where the year-round temperate climate has created an extraordinarily colourful garden–even in winter, reports Tiffany Daneff

Top seats • Chairs and benches for enjoying the garden in comfort, selected by Amelia Thorpe

Box of tricks • There’s much talk of how best to treat box plants affected by blight or moth, but what really works? Charles Quest-Ritson considers available treatments

Cool schools • A small group, an enthusiastic expert and an interesting location are what make these some of the best garden courses you can join, says Non Morris–not forgetting delicious food and something to take home

To tidy or not to tidy

Town versus Earl • An outstanding group of medieval buildings in the heart of Warwick has been renewed as a living institution and visitor attraction. John Goodall describes its history

Now that’s what I call pulling power • What is an ox? Simply a bovine that has been put to work, says Laura Parker, as she celebrates the huge agricultural role of these mighty beasts of burden

See you on the top deck • The first covered double-decker buses made their debut on the streets of the capital 100 years ago. Rob Crossan steps on board and goes up top to trace the evolution of a true London icon

‘Make way for Her Majesty’s gloves!’ • A favourite of our late Queen, the glove-maker established by a Jewish design student who had fled from the Nazis has also dressed the hands of film and pop royalty, discovers Katy Birchall

As cold as ice • Freezing water and melting ice inspire Hetty Lintell’s selection of sensational sparklers. Each would look fabulous with a woolly jumper, too

The designer’s room • Books, art and textiles transformed a characterless space into a warm, inviting sitting room

Call of the wild • Create some animal magic with characterful accessories, selected by Amelia Thorpe

A cloudy start • Could the fate of a trio of notable country houses indicate the market’s direction this year?

Where to brave the outdoors • When the mercury dips, classic displays of coloured stems, textured bark and winter flowers will entice anyone outside. Arabella Youens picks houses with beautiful winter gardens

Kitchen garden cook Leeks

Close to the Bone • Fortune favours the bold, as Henry Bone found when he went to London with a handful of pounds and became enamel painter to three kings

Be still, my beating art • A charming manner, reasonable prices and a sensitivity studiously hyped by his friends helped make George Romney one of Georgian Britain’s...